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The Mark Simone Show

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4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Andy from Brooklyn, NY, called Mark to vent about how miserable Brooklyn is during the snow. He also expressed frustration about the need to feed the parking meter in NYC even when alternate side parking is suspended. Rich from Myrtle Beach, SC, called Mark to discuss the drug cartel situation in Mexico, mentioning a recent incident where someone was killed as a result.

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0:00.0

Mr. New York, Mark Simone, 7-10 W-O-R.

0:09.5

Hey, we'll take some calls, 800, 321-0-7-10 is the number.

0:14.7

Let's go to Andy in Brooklyn.

0:16.2

Andy, what's it like in Brooklyn right now?

0:19.4

Visible.

0:20.1

Oh, a lot of snow on the ground?

0:22.0

A lot of snow in the streets.

0:23.0

It's miserable.

0:23.7

You can't, you know, it's part of the reason I'm calling you.

0:27.8

You know, every time you call 311, they tell you all been inside the street parking is suspended.

0:34.3

But they always say you still have to feed the meter and maybe you know why they do that you can't

0:44.0

even find the car let alone the meter in a thing like this you have any idea why they just

0:51.6

don't cancel both yeah it's called money it's called revenue They want you to feed the meter. That way they can send you a ticket if you don't feed it. Obviously, right now, you can't find the meter. And do they still have parking meters anywhere? I guess they do. I mean, they haven't, but you don't pay. There's no such thing that's putting a quarter in a parking meter anymore You've got to use the app. And how many of these do I have in my phone? Wherever you go, it's a different app. If you're in Connecticut, it's this one. Park Mobile. If you're somewhere else, it's Park, NYC. You're going to have all these different apps. Passport parking. That one works in Long Island a lot. Let's go to Rich and Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing? Pretty good. No snow, but it does still like 22 degrees down here, so we got the cold air, you know, so. You're in Myrtle Beach. You ever get a lot of snow? You don't get snow there, do you? Yeah, we did. We had five inches last month and stuck around for a day or two.

1:46.3

Last year, we had five or six inches. That stuck around for almost a week. But, you know,

1:50.5

they have a little clown call with a shovel on it, and that's their plows. And, you know,

1:56.0

it actually just shuts down the entire state when something like that happens, you know?

2:00.0

Well, we got 15 inches in New York, 18 inches in the suburbs, two feet in the south shore of Long Island. That's why I used to live in Long Beach and Atlantic Beach. I'd probably have two feet of snow right now. You know, I sit around and just watch it melt by it's like shoveling snow. Even when I was in my 50s, I made money shoveling snow. Come up here. You can get $19.40 an hour from Mounde. Oh, that's right. I have to show two forms of ID, even though I don't need one to vote. That's pretty unbelievable. I saw that in the news the other day. You have to have two forms of ID to shovel snow for $12 an hour, but you don't have to have one to vote up there, you know? Hey, I'm watching the news here, Mark, and, you know, they killed this drug cartel, Kingpin in Mexico, who was an ex-cop by the way, right? So instead of the cartels just taking the loss, putting somebody else in charge and keep pumping out the drugs, now they want to just make themselves be known and now they want to burn half of mexico and that's just going to make things worse

2:54.2

to them you figured they would have learned by now you know yeah it's quite a situation you know

2:57.2

you could be in new york city uh visiting staying here in hotel you get caught in the snowstorm

3:02.1

airports are closed you can't get out you could be uh down in florida oh hurricane you're stuck you can't get out these people could be down in Florida. Oh, hurricane, you're stuck, you can't get out. These people are in

3:11.3

this town in Mexico, and some drug cartel guy shoots the leader of the other drug cartel, like the

3:17.6

Hector Salamanca, and all hell breaks loose. There's cartel members all over the streets of this town shooting at everybody blowing up buses.

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